Without a compass: Salonikan Jews in Nazi Concentration Camps and later

• Authors: Stefania Zezza

Abstracts

EN

During the Holocaust, the largest Sephardi community in the world located in Saloniki was almost completely destroyed. Despite their limited number in comparison with that of Ashkenazi Jews, the Salonikan Jews, initially deported to Auschwitz Birkenau and Bergen Belsen, went through all the hardest experiences and were sent to many camps in occupied Poland, and in Germany. This article explores, using archival documents and the testimonies, the geographical directions of their deportations. It also analyses historical coordinates and the Salonikan Jews’ characteristics which affected their destinations and the itinerary with which they were forced to cope.

Keywords

EN

Holocaust; deportations; Sephardim; Saloniki; concentration and extermination camps; slave labour; language; testimonies; displaced persons’ camps

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-71

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Stefania Zezza

• Former Tutor at International Master on Holocaust Studies Roma Tre, President of Etnhos (European Teachers Network on Holocaust Studies), Via Domenico Silveri 3, 00165, Rome, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000000213671538

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1231-1952.28.1.03

Biblioteka Nauki

1892135